Articles by: Ricky Sharples

Guitar techniques do not need to be difficult for beginners, in fact it is a great boost for your enthusiasm when you start to master one or two easy guitar techniques. As the left hand and the right .
(December 13, 2008)

Whatever musical genre you are into, you will need to learn how to play chords. There are varying degrees of focus on learning chords. In rock, country and blues you can get away with learning a few ..
(December 14, 2008)

The question of whether bass or guitar is harder to play often comes up in the minds of guitar beginners. Some even think that the bass must be easier to play because it has less strings than the ..
(November 23, 2008)

Bar chords are the first advanced step for the guitar player. You have some kind of understanding of how to play open guitar chords and you have practiced till your fingertips are hardened enough not .
(November 23, 2008)

If you know how to play a Dobro guitar you have at your command a whole range of notes that you cannot get to without a slide. You can slide into notes which, with that unusual Dobro wail, makes your .
(November 23, 2008)

Free guitar chord software is a sought after item. If you feel you must own software that can spit out every chord known to man then why not get it for free? I cannot help wondering how many ..
(November 09, 2008)

As rock and roll continued to take over the world in the nineteen seventies, the plectrum-wielding lead guitar player became fixed in the minds of music lovers. This style of guitar playing ..
(August 16, 2008)

Bluegrass music is an offshoot of the country and western musical genre. As with country music, bluegrass has its foundation in the music of Ireland, Scotland and England. If bluegrass is centered on .
(August 16, 2008)

Eddie Van Halen is the lead guitarist with a one of the iconic seventies loud and uncouth metal bands. The personalities of the group's members have always been too individualistic to make for ..
(August 16, 2008)

Gypsy jazz guitar is a genre based on the music of Django Reinhardt, a guitar player who overcame a severe disability to become a legend in jazz music. Most people have heard music by the Quintet du ..
(August 17, 2008)

An excellent way you can learn to play blues guitar is by listening to the work of the pioneer blues musicians and learning their material. The music you will be learning will consist of riffs and ..
(June 26, 2008)

I used to think that the key element in learning how to play guitar is practice. It seemed quite reasonable to make that assumption but later I found that practice is only one of several ingredients ..
(June 26, 2008)

Would you like to memorize the guitar fretboard? Would you like to be a fluid, adaptable guitar player? Ideally, you should be able to play the guitar as easily as if you were humming or whistling. ..
(June 26, 2008)

In 1940 a sixteen-year-old Mexican girl named Consuelo Velazquez wrote a passionate song obviously stating her longing to be kissed. The song was called Besame Mucho and it set fire to the hearts, ..
(June 26, 2008)

When you decided to become a guitar player you thought guitar practice would be fun, right? But you have discovered that the process of learning to play guitar involves climbing a mountain or two. If .
(July 03, 2008)

A few years ago House Of The Rising Sun was voted number 122 on the Rolling Stone magazine 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. If you learn to play this song, even you just play the intro, people are ..
(July 03, 2008)

If you have a burning desire to learn to play guitar chords then stick around. It does not matter whether you want to play lead guitar in a band or just accompany your singing on the acoustic guitar, .
(July 03, 2008)

If you enjoy listening to blues guitar music you might want to learn about the early blues guitarists who laid the foundation for the popularity of modern blues guitar music. The works of many blues ..
(July 12, 2008)

If you, like many people, are intrigued by the classical guitar and are wondering about how to play it, you might enjoy this little expose. I will be talking about the ways the classical guitar is ..
(July 12, 2008)

Jimi Hendrix was such a dominant presence in the late 1960's music scene his whole career was full of milestones of one kind or another. So what “facts" help us see this unique character more ..
(July 12, 2008)

If you have recently bought a guitar, the next step is to find some tabs for songs to learn and some diagrams to help you learn to play chords. But with thousands of tabs out there, where do you ..
(July 18, 2008)

Folk music is one of the easiest and most fun musical styles for the beginner guitar player to get into. You can enjoy it almost immediately and, through folk songs you can express your own feelings ..
(July 18, 2008)

Before you go looking for easy rock guitar tabs to play you need to buy a nylon string acoustic guitar. The reason your first guitar should have nylon strings is that they are easier on your fingers ..
(July 18, 2008)

There is a secret you must know if you want to learn to play bass guitar. It is in the name. The guitar is a musical instrument where you learn notes and melodies and chords and all that musical ..
(July 20, 2008)

If you already play the guitar and know how to tune it, why do you need a special tutorial for learning how to tune a bass guitar? The answer is in the sound of the bass guitar. It is so low it is ..
(July 20, 2008)